Korean Daily Life Scenes
Korean Daily Life Scenes is a series of South Korean everyday life moments. These snapshots are painted with wavy outlines and flat mat colour fragments, cluttering elements to invite the viewer to look for signs, objects, and gestures in detail.
Covered market Seller watching Tv, 2018.
Red
food tents, chili paste colour washbowls, green oil bottles, or black plastic
bags – the accumulation of these daily objects shapes South Korean cultural
identity. Between the reviving and nostalgic street sellers, and the politics
of comfort and order, where will these landscapes stand?
![Gangneung Fish Market Seller, 2024]()
Gangneung Fish Market Seller, 2024.
Chuncheon Beauty Salon, 2023.
On the top of the piles of underwear wrapped in plastic bags, the price tags stop passersby: ‘cheap’. This is an opportunity to buy replacements at a low price for old boxer shorts and white undershirts that fathers wear until the bottom hem is overstretched.
Underwear seller, 2021.
Mill, 2021.
Covered market Seller watching Tv, 2018.